Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Nutter, William

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1417790Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 41 — Nutter, William1895Freeman Marius O'Donoghue

NUTTER, WILLIAM (1759?–1802), engraver and draughtsman, was born about 1759 and became a pupil of John Raphael Smith; he practised exclusively in the stipple manner of Bartolozzi, and executed many good plates after the leading English artists of his time, a large proportion being from miniatures by Samuel Shelley. Nutter's works, which are dated from 1780 to 1800, include ‘The Ale House Door’ and ‘Coming from Market,’ after Singleton; ‘Celia overheard by Young Delvile,’ after Stothard; ‘Saturday Evening,’ and ‘Sunday Morning,’ after Bigg; ‘The Moralist,’ after J. R. Smith; ‘Burial of General Fraser,’ after J. Graham, and portraits of Princess Mary, after Ramberg; Captain Coram, after Hogarth; Lady Beauchamp, after Reynolds; Mrs. Hartley, after Reynolds; Martha Gunn, after Russell; and Lady E. Foster, Samuel Berdmore, and Nathaniel Chauncy after Shelley. Nutter exhibited some allegorical designs at the Royal Academy in 1782 and 1783. He died at his residence in Somers Town, 14 March 1802, in his 44th year, and was buried in the graveyard of Whitefield's Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Road.

[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Dodd's Collections in British Museum, Addit. MS. 33403; Gent. Mag. 1802, pt. i. p. 286.]

F. M. O'D.

Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.207
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line

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